VMworld 2017 Global Registration is Live! [blogs.vmware.com/vmworld]
Join the industry’s top thought leaders, subject-matter experts and IT professionals at VMworld 2017 to immerse yourself in the latest in cloud infrastructure and digital workspace innovations. At VMworld, you’ll discover the technology, trends, and people like you who are shaping digital business. Registration is now live for both VMworld 2017 US and VMworld 2017 Europe – don’t delay!
NSX Design Notes (1/10) – Functional Components [nxgcloud.com]
NSX Manager Virtual Appliance – NSX Management plane NSX Manger : vCenter -> 1:1 Responsible for Deployment of control clusters and ESX Host preparation (install VIBs). Deployment and configuration of NSX Edges (ESG and DLR). SSL Creates self-signed ssl certificates for control cluster nodes and esxi hosts. Control plane communication is encrypted. SSL
UserCon 2017 Duncan Epping Whats Next for VSAN [www.youtube.com]
Sydney VMUG UserCon 2017 – Morning Keynote by Duncan Epping – Whats Next for VSAN. 21st March 2017
Troubleshooting VMs Connectivity with vRealize Network Insight [blogs.vmware.com/consulting]
In today’s datacentre, the rapid need to deploy business applications in minutes is necessary to keep the business ahead of the game. It is even more crucial to keep security and rapid networking configuration in control. So, how can a network administrator get to the bottom of a network issue in a matter of seconds in this new cloud era?
SuperMicro vs Intel NUC [lab-rat.com]
A couple of weeks ago I was talking to William Lam (http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/) and Alan Renouf (http://www.virtu-al.net/) about their exciting USB to SDDC demonstration, they were using an Intel NUC to deploy a VMware SDDC environment to a single node using VSAN. I offered them the opportunity to test out the same capability with one of my SuperMicro E200-8D servers and they took me up on the opportunity. Since then I have been approached by a number of people with requests for information about why I chose to go with the SuperMicro E200 for my home lab over the Intel NUC. I’ve never written a blog before but I thought this might be a good way to “cut out the middle man” so to speak. So here it goes, my reasons for why I chose the…Read More
PowerCLI 6.5 adds new cmdlets, upgrades existing options [searchvmware.techtarget.com]
You can now move virtual machines between vCenter instances that aren’t a part of the same single sign-on domain with the upgraded PowerCLI cmdlets.
Announcing the New VMware User Environment Manager Deployment Considerations White Paper [blogs.vmware.com/euc]
We are excited to announce the release of the VMware User Environment Manager Deployment Considerations white paper. This guide covers VMware User Environment Manager 9.1 and is intended for architects, consultants, IT professionals, and anyone involved in creating high-level, functional, and technical designs.
VMworld 2017 Sessions Open for Voting [punchingclouds.com]
Yep!! VMworld 2017 is upon us and its coming fast. Now that all the industry vendors and virtualization enthusiast in the community have submitted their sessions, its time for everyone to take a look at the content catalog and vote for what you want to see this year’s conference.
vSAN – Check VM Storage Policy & Compliance [40centcoffee.com]
As I continue to work with vSAN I discover there’s way more to do than just move some VMs over and you’re on your way. With multiple vSAN clusters each with different configurations I needed a way to monitor the current setup and check for changes. While creating a simple script to check which VM Storage Policy is assigned to each VM isn’t very difficult, a creating a script to check the storage policy of VMs across multiple vSAN datastores proved to be a little more difficult.
Announcing the new VMware NSX Community at VMUG!
Chris McCain, Director of Product Management at VMware, and Brad Tompkins, CEO at VMUG, join forces to talk about the new NSX community at VMUG, dedicated to network and security virtualization. This free community will offer individuals an opportunity for Q&A with NSX experts and product managers, special community content, discussions with peers, and much more. So signup for the new NSX community at VMUG today, get active immediately, and you could be one of our lucky winners in the month of April! Join today: http://www.vmug.com/nsx Read the blog: https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2017/04/nsx-community-vmug
vCenter 6.5 Performance: what does 6x mean? [blogs.vmware.com/performance]
As a senior performance engineer who focuses on vCenter, and as one of the presenters of VMworld Session INF8108 (listed in the top-right corner of the slide above), I have received a number of questions regarding the “6x” and “2x scale” labels in the slide above. This blog is an attempt to explain these numbers by describing (at a high level) the performance improvements for vCenter in 6.5. I will focus specifically on the vCenter Appliance in this post.
What’s New in vSphere 6.5 – New Training Course from PluralSight [vladan.fr]
There is a new training course available at Pluralsight with as a topic What’s new in vSphere 6.5. The author is Josh Coen (@joshcoen), a VCDX certified, cloud architect, working for Sirius Computer Solutions, a national systems integrator. Josh has been working in the industry for 15 years, specifically with virtualization and storage.
VMware at Mobile World Congress (MWC) [youtube.com]
via youtube.com
Dell Technologies Reports Positive Q4 Earnings, EMC Boosts Result [sdxcentral.com]
Notably, the company’s revenues for its Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG), which includes EMC’s efforts, saw the most growth with a total of $8.4 billion this quarter. Within its ISG, servers and networking products brought in revenues of $3.6 billion, compared to $2.9 billion last quarter, and its storage business accounted for $4.8 billion in revenue, compared to only $562 million the quarter before.
Hypervisor Security Matters [blogs.vmware.com/workstation]
As I’m sure you noticed, we’ve delivered a flurry of patch-releases for Fusion and Workstation in the last few weeks. Want to know why? Because security matters.
VMworld 2017 Session Voting [jasemccarty.com]
Just a quick post asking for your votes for some sessions I’ve submitted and/or been included in.
VMwareVoice: Why Your Old Cybersecurity Plan Will Leave Your Clouds Open To Attack [forbes.com]
“The problem comes about because those controls placed on traditional servers and network links are no longer aligned with the applications and data they are tasked with protecting” – Tom Corn, senior vice president of security product at VMware.
Access Internal REST APIs in vR Ops with PowerShell [blogs.vmware.com/management]
The following blog post originated on the personal blog of VMware Sr. Systems Engineer, Vinith Menon. With his permission, I am reposting this content here on the official VMware Cloud Management blog. In this post, Vinith provides a way to access the vRealize Operations internal APIs via Powershell. The public APIs can be accessed through the PowerCLI module for vRealize Operations, but there are some useful APIs to explore in the internal API set. Be aware that internal APIs are subject to change or removal with any new release, so use at your own risk.
VMworld 2017 : Session Analysis and Voting Open…Already! [anthonyspiteri.net]
Well this has crept up on us quickly this year! It’s time to vote for the VMworld Sessions that will be part of the US and Europe VMworld’s held later in the year. The Session Voting is more Session liking as you have the ability to mark multiple sessions as ones that you would like to see. Apparently there are 1900 odd sessions, however the voting site lists 1500 that where submitted and are listed in the Online Catalog.
How do you upgrade a stand-alone host to ESXi 6.5? [searchvmware.techtarget.com] (remove social selling tag, add SDDC)
Upgrading a stand-alone host to ESXi 6.5 is as easy as downloading the offline bundle update, starting Secure Shell and running a few commands with the ESXi software command tool set.
